One great thing about my job is getting to peek into labs where scientists tinker with stuff that’s way over my head but totally sparks my curiosity. I wasn’t even aware that UC Berkeley has a Space Sciences Laboratory but Philip von Doetinchem works there on the measurements of cosmic rays. This was for a story for German magazine Zeit Campus about academics and tattoos.

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